Escape Rooms Come To Braintree With Launch Of Adventure Game Venue

BRAINTREE, MA — There’s no escaping the escape room trend, and now it’s coming for the first time to Braintree.

Escapology, an “escape room destination” at 400 Franklin St. in Five Corners, will open its doors on Thursday, according to a news release.

In rooms like these, teams of game players race to discover clues or perform tasks in order to “escape” the chamber or solve a puzzle. The first rooms in the U.S. sprang up 15 years ago, and today it’s estimated people are playing at about three dozen venues in Massachusetts.

Escapology Braintree will include six escape rooms. They range from a “haunted house” – “where the walls whisper and time is running out” – to the “Scooby-Doo and the Spooky Castle Adventure,” where players try to solve a mystery and “unmask the villain before the clock strikes midnight.”

The 3,900-square-foot site in Braintree will be the third Escapology franchise operated by Wamesit Lanes, a bowling arcade and family entertainment center in Tewksbury.

Founder and owner Don MacLaren Jr. said, “Expanding the Wamesit brand with Escapology locations in Tewksbury and Waltham helped us to bring even new immersive entertainment options to folks north of Boston, and now we’re excited to bring that same experience down to the South Shore.”

The business hopes to employ 10-15 people at the Braintree site.

The Escapology franchise company, based in Florida, says its escape rooms operate in more than 100 sites worldwide.